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2018

#12566

Lietuvos Slaugos Istorija 1918-2018.

The history of nursing in Lithuania from 1918 to 2018. (406pp.) Available as a PDF from sskc.lt at this link.

2018

#12565

Ethnopharmaceutical knowledge in Samogita region of Lithuania: where old traditions overlap with modern medicine.

Open source from link.springer.com at this link.

1999

#12564

Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, a Fifteenth-Century Armenian Natural Historian and Physician.

2018

#12563

Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.

"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…

2019

#12562

Explorations in Baltic medical history, 1850-2015. Edited by Nils Hansson and Jonatan Wistrand.

"This book explores the history of medicine in the Baltic Sea region and provides different answers to one central question: How has the circulation of knowledge in the Baltic Sea region influenced medicine as a disci…

1958

#12561

Cold injury, ground type.

Summary of what was learned about frostbite and trenchfoot encountered by military personel in World War II. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

2018

#12560

Medicine and conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy.

Concerns the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. "Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, whic…

2005

#12559

Historia de la anestesia en España. 1847-1940.

1920

#12558

Religion and health.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1919

#12557

History of medicine in New York: Three centuries of medical progress. 4 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2005

#12556

The embryo: Scientific discovery and medical ethics. Edited by Shraga Blazer and Etan Z. Zimmer.

Addresses 1: The beginning of life, 2: Embryonic stem cells, 3: Societal, ethical and religious views on genetic intervention in humans, 4: Genetics-From in vitro to in vivo, 5: Fetal surgical and pharmacological inte…

2008

#12555

At work in the field of birth: Midwifery narratives of nature, tradition, and home.

",,, an ethnographic study of midwifery in Canada in the wake of its historic transition from the margins as a grassroots social movement devoted to low-tech, woman-centered care to a regulated profession within the p…

1977

#12554

Midwives and medical men: A history of inter-professional rivalries and women's rights.

1998

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

1989

#12552

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

2006

#12551

Samoan medical belief and practice.

"...the first comprehensive study of Samoan medicine. Cluny and La‘avasa Macpherson have carried out intensive investigation into the practice and beliefs of contemporary indigenous healers, or fofo, in Western Samoa …

1985

#12550

Healing practices in the South Pacific. Edited by Claire D. F. Parsons

1995

#12549

Samoan herbal medicine. O Lā'au ma Vai Fofō o Samoa.

2015

#12548

Idioms of Sámi health and healing. Edited by Barbara Helen Miller.

"The Sámi—Indigenous people of northernmost Europe—have relied on Traditional Healing methods over generations. This pioneering volume documents, in accessible language, local healing traditions and demonstrates the e…

2011

#12547

The healing landscapes of Central and Southeastern Siberia. Edited by David G. Anderson

"This volume documents healing traditions in Eastern Siberia in an area extending from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. The region shows an interesting unity in healing traditions across a wide range of landscape type…

2017

#12546

Teens and their doctors: The story of the development of adolescent medicine.

Traces the development of adolescent medicine from the first program, opened by Ros Gallagher at Boston Children’s Hospital, in 1951, to the creation of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM), in 1968. The book des…

2015

#12545

A history of the Medical Council of New Zealand. Compiled by Richard Sainsbury.

Available only as a PDF from ncnz.org at this link.

1995

#12544

Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.

1999

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

1987

#12542

A history of the New Zealand Medical Association: The first 100 years.

1940

#12541

Medicine and health in New Zealand: A retrospect and a prospect.

Medical education, the hospital system, the relationship between specialists and general practitioners, and the brain drain of doctors to Britain.

2014

#12540

Islamic medical manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine.

Online only. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/catalog_tb.html

1917

#12539

Blight: The tragedy of Dublin: An exposition in 3 acts.

Gogarty, an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin was "o…

2018

#12538

Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.

"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …

2020

#12537

Mesopotamian eye disease texts: The Nineveh treatise.

"This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is pr…

2019

#12536

Syriac medicine by Grigory Kessel. Pages 438-459 IN: The Syriac world edited by Daniel King.

1903

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the author/…

1849

#12534

Practical pharmacy: The arrangements, apparatus, and manipulations, of the pharmaceutical shop and laboratory.

This was a translation and adaptation for the British market of Mohr's Lehrbuch der pharmaceutischen Technik, also published in 1849. It is thus the first textbook of pharmacy in English. Though Redwood made it clear …

1849

#12533

Lehrbuch der pharmaceutischen Technik.

The first textbook of pharmacy.

2018

#12532

Medieval bodies: Life, death and art in the Middle Ages.

2015

#12531

The shape of spectatorship. Art, science, and early cinema in Germany.

"Focusing on the nontheatrical use of motion picture technology in Germany between the 1890s and World War I....Staging a brilliant collision between the moving image and scientific or medical observation, visual inst…

2002

#12530

A sourcebook of dental medicine: Being a documentary history of dentistry and stomatology from the earliest times to the middle of the twentieth century.

1622

#12529

La fleur des remèdes contre le mal des dents.

Digital facsimile of the second editiion "reveue corrigée & augmentée de nouveau" also printed in 1622 from BnF Gallica at this link. Translated into English by Jacques R. Fouré, edited by Milton B. Asbell as The flow…

2000

#12528

Encyclopedia of medicine in the Bible and the Talmud.

An extension and expansion of Preuss, Biblisch-talmudische Medizin (1911, 1923). See No. 6498.

1998

#12527

Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.

1972

#12526

Die Natur- und Geheimwissenschaften im Islam.(Handbuch der Orientalistik, 1. Abteilung, Ergänzungsband VI, 2).

Concerns zoology, botany, mineralogy, alchemy, astrology, magic, agriculture, the largest section being devoted to alchemy.

2014

#12525

Medicine in Medieval Islam by Emilie Savage-Smith. IN: The Cambridge history of science, Vol. 2: Medieval science, edited by D. Lindberg and M. H. Shank, pp. 140-167.

2004

#12524

The oriental tradition of Paul of Aegina's Pragmateia.

"The volume investigates how Paul of Aegina's medical handbook or pragmateia was transmitted and transformed through Syriac and Arabic translations, becoming one of the cornerstones of the Islamic medical tradition. I…

2006

#12523

The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5).

1993

#12522

Die Erganzung Ibn Gulgul's zur Materia Medica des Dioskurides: Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Ubersetzung herausgegeben von Albert Dietrich.

1991

#12521

Die Dioskurides-Erklärung des Ibn-al-Baitār: Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Pfanzensynonymik des Mittelalters. Edited and translated by Albert Dietrich. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl., fol. 3, no. 191).

1988

#12520

Das Ergebnis des Nachdenkens über die Behandlung der Augenkrankheiten von Fath ad-Dīn al-Qaisī. Übersetzung des arabischen Textes, Kommentar von Hans-Dieter Bischoff.

1905

#12519

Die arabischen Lehrbücher der Augenheilkunde. Ein Capitel zur arabischen Litteraturegeschichte. Unter Mitwirkung von J. Lippert und E. Mittwoch. Bearbeitet von J. Hirschberg.

Digital facsimile of the 1905 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English as The Arabian Ophthalmologists, compiled from original texts by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert and E. Mittwoch and tran…

1956

#12518

Avicenne, Poème de la médecine, Urgūza fi' t-tibb, Cantica Avicennae.

1995

#12517

The Prophet's medicine: A creation of the Muslim traditionalist scholars (Studia Orientalia 74)